Rebecca Taylor-Grant
Dr. Rebecca Taylor-Grant is Director of Open Science Strategy & Innovation at Taylor & Francis, where she leads the implementation of Open Science policies and programmes. She has a background in data management for the humanities and social sciences and is co-chair of the STM Association’s Research Data Program Humanities Data Subgroup, as well as the RDA Research Data Policy Interest Group. She is a qualified Open Data trainer certified by the Open Data Institute. She was previously a member of the Research Data Alliance’s European Support Team, based at the National Library of Ireland and the Digital Repository of Ireland. Her PhD explored the connections between archival theory and practice and the management of research data.
Working Group
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Peter McQuilton, Simon Hodson, Holly Murray, Graham Smith, Allyson Lister, Rebecca Taylor-Grant
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Isabelle PERSEIL
OUTPUTS
Completed and RDA-endorsed
FAIRsharing registry – A curated, informative and educational registry of interlinked descriptions of (i) standards (to identify, report, and cite data and m...
Interest Group
Research Data Policy IG
Co-Chair
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Mohamed Drira
Introduction
Research data policies aim to increase the availability of research data and in some cases, FAIR research data. The number of organisations with data policies – and number of researcher...
Interest Group
Collections as Data IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
About
This group is aimed at collections professionals such as archivists, librarians, records managers and museum curators, as well as related professions such as IT professionals, knowledge scientis...
Maintenance Group
Data Citation WG
Member
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Andreas Rauber, Mark Parsons
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
The Data Citation WG maintains the RDA Recommendation for Precise, Actionable Reference to Dynamic Data:
Rauber, A., Parsons, M., & RDA Data Citation WG. (2025). Precise, Actionable Reference to D...
Interest Group
Data Discovery Paradigms IG
Member
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Anupama Gururaj
RDA Interest Group Charter
Name of Interest Group: Data Discovery Paradigms IG
Introduction:
The F.A.I.R. Principles, i.e. that data should be “Findable, Accessible, Interpretable and Reusable?...
Maintenance Group
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Michael Witt, Kathleen Shearer, Allyson Lister, Matthew Cannon, Washington Luís Ribeiro de Segundo, Kazu Yamaji
TAB Liaison: Rossella Aversa
The Data Repository Attributes Working Group seeks to produce a list of common attributes that describe a research data repository and to provide examples of the current approaches that different dat...
Working Group
Data Usage Metrics WG
Member
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Chair(s): Ian Bruno, Iratxe Puebla
TAB Liaison: Louise Bezuidenhout
Webinar – Tools & Resources for Data Usage Metrics – 21 April 2022
Research data is increasingly recognized as an important output of scholarly research, however, there are not yet...
Working Group
Stage: WG Wrapping up
Chair(s): Daniela Hausen, Briana Wham, Jessica Hrudey, Holly Murray, Shannon Sheridan, Ivonne Anders, Yasemin Turkyilmaz-van der Velden, Santosh Ilamparuthi
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Najla Rettberg
Many research funding agencies expect DMPs which receive valuable metadata about the project as well as collected and analyzed data. In order to use DMPs profitably for researchers in their everyday l...
Working Group
DMP Common Standards WG
Member
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Sara El-Gebali
In a nutshell
This group produced a recommendation on machine-actionable DMPs.
recommendation: https://doi.org/10.15497/rda00039
full documentation: https://github.com/RDA-DMP-Common/RDA-DMP-Common...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Mingfang Wu
The context of increasing volumes of data being created by researchers and the strengthening of requirements for research data management and data sharing has created demand for a new and evolving set...